Deleting data
If you have the possibility to delete all Salesforce data, that means that you are someone important, maybe a Salesforce Admin. If you are not, then someone did not spot something and gave you too much power, because as the well-known saying goes: “With great power comes great responsibility.”
In this section, we will detail the following few ways in which data can be deleted from Salesforce:
- Deleting records manually
- Mass deleting records via Data Loader
- Flow Delete action
No worries; we will also see how to rescue the deleted data.
Deleting records manually
As simple as it may seem, you may have the right to delete records manually, one by one. It sounds like an obvious feature; if someone can create records, they should also be able to delete them. However, in the Salesforce world, to be able to delete records on some objects, the user needs to have the proper permissions. Permissions come separately for each object and...
